Yang Guifei likes to eat litchi. In the mature season, she is required to eat fresh litchi every day. But litchi is produced in the south, mostly in Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Sichuan. However, the capital of the Tang Dynasty is in Xi 'an, which is 1000 miles away from the nearest litchi producing area. Plus fresh litchi is difficult to preserve. Once you leave this branch, it will change color for one day, smell for two days, smell for three days, and lose all its color and fragrance after four or five days. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty used fast horses to transport Yang Guifei day and night, and often arrived in the capital with the same taste.
Du Mu, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, wrote a quatrain entitled "Crossing the Qing Palace in China", in which he wrote a famous sentence: "Riding a princess in the world of mortals and laughing, no one knows it is litchi." The concubine smiled at litchi, hence the name.
Life in Yang Yuhuan:
1. On the first day of the sixth lunar month in the seventh year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan was born into an official family. His great grandfather, Yang Hewang, was a minister in Shang Dynasty and an official in Sui Dynasty. He was killed in the early Tang Dynasty. Father Yang Xuanyan was a manager in Zhou Shu; My uncle was a Henan official of Cao and spent his childhood. In the seventeenth year of Kaiyuan, Yang Yuhuan, who was about 10 years old, was fostered in his uncle Hsuan Yang's home.
2. Yang Yuhuan is born with beauty and excellent educational environment. She has a certain cultural accomplishment, graceful personality, proficient in temperament, good at singing and dancing, and good at playing pipa.
3. In July of the 23rd year of Kaiyuan, Princess Xianyi, the daughter of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, held a wedding in Luoyang, and Yang Yuhuan was invited to attend. Li Jing, the younger brother of Princess Xianyi, fell in love with Yang Yuhuan at first sight. At your request, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty wrote a letter that year, naming her as the longevity princess. After the marriage, the two were very loving.
4. In the 25th year of Kaiyuan, Wu Huifei died. Li Wei's mother, Wu Huifei, was the favorite concubine of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and her courtesies in the palace were equivalent to those of the empress. Xuanzong is unhappy. At that time, the harem Qian Qian was absolutely meaningless. Some people suggested that "the courtyards should be full of manners", and Xuanzong called Yang into the harem.
5. In the fourth year of Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made Wei's daughter a princess, and then she became a imperial concubine. Since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty abolished the king and queen, there has been no queen, so Yang Guifei is equivalent to the queen.